Value-Based Health Care concisely explains the mandate to successfully link health care quality and finance and describes the tools to implement strategies for organizational success. Yosef Dlugacz provides many illustrative real-world examples of process and outcomes of the value-based approach, taken from a wide range of health care settings. Perfect for students preparing to enter health care management or for practicing health care leaders and professionals, this book is a vital guide to approaches that ensure the health of patients and health care organizations alike.
The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations
The Quality Handbook for Health Care Organizations is a practical, theory-based resource on the topic of health care quality management written for health care administrators and practitioners. It offers the tools needed to help managers make decisions, prioritize resources (financial and human), and analyze and improve the care they deliver. The Handbook offers a hands-on approach to specific topics such as the implementation of managerial goals, instructions for developing accurate measurements for evaluation of care, the utilization of data as a basis for process improvement, exploration of quality management tools and techniques, guidelines for the complete integration of collaborative services in health care, and methods for effective communication.
In addition, the book is filled with illustrative examples of methods for ensuring appropriate oversight of clinical and quality activities, offers solutions for addressing and preventing adverse events, and explores the important people-to-people interactions that ultimately define excellence in medical care.
Measuring Health Care is a practical guide for the understanding and application of measurement methods in health care facilities. This invaluable text shows students and professionals how measurements and data can be used to balance quality services and financial viability and how measures can help to evaluate and improve organizational, clinical, and financial processes. The book explains the various performance measurement methods used in health care and shows their practical impact on clinical patient outcomes.
The volume is grounded in the transition from a physician-centered, volume-based reimbursement system to a quality-driven, data-centered culture. The book explores the primary roles of performance assessment and outcome measurements in the current health care environment. Measuring Health Care combines extensive theoretical understanding with experience and offers examples from the author’s pioneering quality management leadership.